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Have just had my first direct encounter with sex trafficking in Vietnam.

My wife, Thuy's, 18-year-old niece, Thi Lon, who is dim almost to the point of being retarded, was persuaded by a stranger, an unknown woman, to leave her home and travel to Long Hai, a coastal resort 7 hours away, to earn money working in a hotel.

... It's just like being in a sauna when someone's chucked water on the coals. It's more jungle here than anywhere we have been. But strangely one of the cash crops here is a cactus with huge fruit. The rice paddies have been replaced with concrete posts that the cactus grow around. Next we came across this 4 x 4 on a patch of Tarmac in the middle of nowhere. We think it was a driving test. I think a few of you in ...

... but lots of Vietnamese children arriving on bicycles or motorbikes with their picnics, looking like they were planning to spend the day. We wondered why they weren’t at school and later learnt that it was "Teachers day" today and they had to go to school for only half a day…

We were hoping that there would be a coastal road that we could take from here but there was not, so we had to use the 51, the main road. ...

Second day of our journey and we were up and off at 07;00. It was already hot but we had covered 20 kms in the first hour. The road was good with drivers giving us plenty of warning with their blaring horns as they approached us from behind. Actually each time you hear one you think that they are heading straight at you from the rear, it does not feel like the kindly warning that it is intended ...

Thursday 29th March. Today we are docked in Phu My container port in Vietnam. This is a very large port with some pretty impressive equipment available, but it is empty. There is not a container in sight.Obviously expectations are very high. Hopefully it will pay dividends for the Vietnamese in time. We decided today that we would take a shuttle bus to a town called Ba Ra, from where we will hire a minibus to take 10 of us to ...